Overweight in adolescence can be predicted at age 6 years: a CART analysis in German cohorts.

OBJECTIVE: To examine, whether overweight in adolescents can be predicted from the body mass index (BMI) category, at the age of 6, the mother's education level and mother's obesity and to quantify the proportion of overweight at the age of 14 that can be explained by these predictors. MET...

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Main Authors: Christina Riedel, Rüdiger von Kries, Anette E Buyken, Katharina Diethelm, Thomas Keil, Linus Grabenhenrich, Manfred J Müller, Sandra Plachta-Danielzik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3968156?pdf=render